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Men's finishing schools were a thing in 1987, and Melbourne plumber Gavin Pearce hoped they could help him emulate the success of his idols Paul Hogan and Pat Cash. Now, we're trying to discover just how it all panned out.

The idea of a baby resting in a sling suspended from a car's roof might seem odd today but it was among a wide variety of child restraint options in 1970 — and most people had no idea just how dangerous they really were.

A growing number of tech-savvy Chinese millennials are jumping onto the buy-now-pay-later bandwagon — but experts also warn against illegal providers who ask for "nudie selfies" as collateral for the loans.

A prankster claims credit for a takeover of Scott Morrison's web domain, hosting an image of the Prime Minister along with an obscene pop-punk song about a teenage love affair called Scotty Doesn't Know.